Newer Linux Book

I wanted to brush up on my command line skills and I ran across this book on Safari Books Online.

Amazon.com: The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction (9781593273897): William E. Shotts Jr.: Books

Got some good reviews, haven't started reading, but will let everyone know how it is.

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AceRimmer

Probably OK.
I went with Mark G. Sobell's "Practical guide to Linux Commands, Editors and Shell Programming" few years ago.

the_Grinch

I have that one, but it is fairly dry and just feels like man pages. The above text, from what I read thus far, is much better when it comes to not being so dry.

onesaint

No Starch Press is pretty good about that. I have The Linux Cookbook and How Linux Works which are both the same way. That is, a bit easier of a read. Although, I'm reading Michael Jang's Red Hat study guide (not a NSP book) which is said to be an easy read and am finding it to almost be too informal.

UnixGuy

What works for me better than books is following forums like unix.com and linuxquestions.org . Try to solve the problems that people post there